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Defecate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.

2. To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes. We defecate the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To become clear, pure, or free. Goldsmith.

2. To void excrement.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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